Console Table - First of a Pair
A rare Candon scroll console table
Estimate: PHP 120,000 - 140,000
Last quarter, 19th century
Candon, Ilocos Sur
Red narra
90 x 98 x 51 cm (35 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 20 in)
Provenance:
Formerly from the heirs of Josefa Abaya of Candon City
In furniture, the Late Classical style popular in Europe in 1835-1850 is known as the Pillar and Scroll style in America. It is characterized by C- and S-curves that were cut into pillars and scrolls as primary visual element. This pair of console tables, offered in separate lots, was influenced by this style as it reached the Philippines decades later. It looks stately and elegant, and one is immediately drawn to the curvaceous scroll supports decorated with turned bosses, and the shapely foliated scroll ornament to the 3-inch thick lower shelf. The corniced double top is attenuated at the bottom and widens to the top, the same archetypal shape found in the Ilocos comoda de poste. The table stands on claw feet at the front. When found in situ, these tables on which the family’s venerated santos were enshrined, sat at either side of the door leading to one of the bedrooms.
Josefa Abaya is a descendant of local hero Isabelo Abaya (1854 - 1900), who despite being from a prominent and rich family founded Espiritu de Candon, the revolutionary faction of the Katipunan in Ilocos Sur. He led the 'Cry of Candon' in 1898 which drove the Spaniards away and declared a free Republic of Candon, less than three months before the declaration of the Philippine Independence in June 1898. He is now recognized as one of the founders of Candon, the tobacco capital of the Philippines.
Lot 122 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on September 17, 2022. Please see salcedoauctions.com for more information.
Console Table - First of a Pair
A rare Candon scroll console table
Estimate: PHP 120,000 - 140,000
Last quarter, 19th century
Candon, Ilocos Sur
Red narra
90 x 98 x 51 cm (35 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 20 in)
Provenance:
Formerly from the heirs of Josefa Abaya of Candon City
In furniture, the Late Classical style popular in Europe in 1835-1850 is known as the Pillar and Scroll style in America. It is characterized by C- and S-curves that were cut into pillars and scrolls as primary visual element. This pair of console tables, offered in separate lots, was influenced by this style as it reached the Philippines decades later. It looks stately and elegant, and one is immediately drawn to the curvaceous scroll supports decorated with turned bosses, and the shapely foliated scroll ornament to the 3-inch thick lower shelf. The corniced double top is attenuated at the bottom and widens to the top, the same archetypal shape found in the Ilocos comoda de poste. The table stands on claw feet at the front. When found in situ, these tables on which the family’s venerated santos were enshrined, sat at either side of the door leading to one of the bedrooms.
Josefa Abaya is a descendant of local hero Isabelo Abaya (1854 - 1900), who despite being from a prominent and rich family founded Espiritu de Candon, the revolutionary faction of the Katipunan in Ilocos Sur. He led the 'Cry of Candon' in 1898 which drove the Spaniards away and declared a free Republic of Candon, less than three months before the declaration of the Philippine Independence in June 1898. He is now recognized as one of the founders of Candon, the tobacco capital of the Philippines.
Lot 122 of the Salcedo Auctions auction on September 17, 2022. Please see salcedoauctions.com for more information.